Affinities and Exchanges: The Encounter between the Bengal School and the Bauhaus through two Exhibitions (Calcutta 1922 - Berlin 1923)

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https://doi.org/10.24310/BoLArte.2018.v0i39.4234

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Two exhibitions, which took place within a short space of time, serve as a starting point to study the network of artistic and cultural exchanges between Indian modernism and German avant-garde in the early twenties. In 1922, a major Bauhaus art exhibition was held in Calcutta. In 1923, the following year, modern Indian watercolours were shown in Berlin. These two exhibitions generated a theoretical debate in both the Indian and the German press, in which Indian modernism was formulated and the affinities between Indian and German avant-garde were acclaimed as early as the 1920s, thus establishing the existence of a worldwide modernism.

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  • Sol Izquierdo de la Viña, Complutense University of Madrid
    Sol Izquierdo de la Viña (Madrid, 1990) es Licenciada en Historia del Arte en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2013) y Máster en Historia del Arte en el Contexto Global en la Freie Universität Berlin (2017). En la actualidad, tiene un contrato como Personal Investigador en Formación en el Departamento de Historia del Arte de la UCM, donde realiza una tesis doctoral que traza las convergencias y divergencias entre las vanguardias alemana e india durante el primer tercio del siglo XX, desde una perspectiva transcultural, enmarcándolas dentro del panorama de las modernidades multicéntricas.

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2018-09-16

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Affinities and Exchanges: The Encounter between the Bengal School and the Bauhaus through two Exhibitions (Calcutta 1922 - Berlin 1923). (2018). Boletín De Arte, 39, 125-137. https://doi.org/10.24310/BoLArte.2018.v0i39.4234